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Chechen Mobsters, Bombs, Bumps and Special Ops: The Criminal Tale of Caviar

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In the mid 90s, Russia under Boris Yeltsin said it's going to ban the fishing of Sturgeon in the camp at Caspian Sea. And that unsurprisingly does not go down well with the local crooks. Two dozen members of a Russian anti-poaching gang are murdered, murdered. In 1996, all hell breaks loose in the war-torn Caucasian Republic of Dagestan,. which becomes ground zero for a crazy, carry-out gang war. A kidnapped and killed regularly. Finance Minister Garnid-Gammadov was killed by a car bomb in 1996. Deputy Prime Minister Sayid Amarov has survived four attempts on his life.

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